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    April 07, 2012

100 Buried in Pakistan Avalanche

   Military base buried

   VOA News
   Photo: ASSOCIATED PRESS
   FILE - In this Feb. 19, 2012 file photo, Pakistani Army soldiers with
   the 20th Lancers Armored Regiment, carry supplies up the 2,400 meter
   (8,000-foot) mountain near their outpost, Kalpani Base, in Pakistan's
   Dir district. An avalanche smashed into a Pakistani army base on a
   Himalayan glacier close to India on Saturday, April 7, 2012, burying
   around 130 soldiers. (AP Photo/Anja Niedringhaus, File)

   Pakistan officials say an avalanche has smashed into a military base,
   burying more than 100 soldiers.
   Military authorities say the avalanche hit the base Saturday in the
   mountainous Siachen Glacier region, known as the world's highest
   battlefield. Pakistan and India have military outposts in the region.
   Officials say rescue teams are headed to the remote base in the
   Himalayan area near India.
   Pakistan's military says the fate of the soldiers was not immediately
   clear.
   Military experts say Siachen's inhospitable climate and avalanche-prone
   terrain have claimed more lives than gunfire.

   Some information for this report provided by AP, AFP and Reuters.

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